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From: "Don and Sheila" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Culture
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:26:54 -0800
I guess I learned the same songs I now sing to my grandchildren:
Lullaby and good night, sweet baby sleep tight.
Hush, little baby, not a word --Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird....
Bye Baby Bunting, Daddy's gone a-huntin
Trot, Trot, Trot to grandma's house to get a little sugar in the babies
You are my sunshine
When we were in WV, we woke up at 5am to gospel music on the radio.
As for dances:
Hucklebuck (My Uncle Ellis taught me this one --he would take me to town and
have me dancing on the street corner --people threw coins)
When I got older, my Dad taught me the jitterbug.
I learned to Square Dance in school --that passed for PE class.
Sheila's Surnames: Barrett, Beavers, Bolen (Boling), Brown, Conley,
Crickmer, Godbey, Harman (Harmon), Linkous, Maxwell, Peery, Skaggs, Sparks,
Don's Surnames: Aldridge, Allen, Bolyard, Dawson, Goodwin, Hein, McNorton
(McNaughton?), Price, Rhinehart
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